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The link between prostate cancer & promiscuity
Young men who are sexually active with more than one person face an increased risk of prostate cancer in later life. Research to emerge from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm points to sexual promiscuity as a leading risk factor in contracting human papilloma virus (HPV). Already linked to cervical cancer in women, HPV may explain why there has been a recent upsurge in prostate cancer in men. If correct, the theory is that once young men are exposed to HPV it kick-starts a chain of genetic mutations that can eventually lead to cancer decades later.
How ejaculation helps reduce prostate cancer
An epidemiological study of 30,000 American men by Michael Leitzman, a cancer researcher at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, has found that men who enjoy an active sex life do not risk prostate cancer in later life.
There has been a suggested link with greater sexual activity and increased incidents of prostate cancer in previous scientific data because of the link with the male hormone testosterone and its effect on promoting cancer cell growth.
Leitzmann's findings were that men who ejaculate between 13 and 20 times a month had a 14% lower risk of prostate cancer that men who ejaculated on average, between 4 and 7 times a month for most of their adult life. Men who ejaculated upwards of 21 times a month had a 33% lower lifetime risk of prostate cancer than the baseline group.
